Creatures

Famous quotes containing the word creatures:

“To a joke, then, I owe my first gleam of consciousness—which again has recapitulatory implications, since the first creatures on earth to become aware of time were also the first creatures to smile.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“Upon the creatures we have made,
We are, ourselves, at last, dependent.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

“All nature’s creatures join to express nature’s purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself.”
—Graham Swift (b. 1949)